Musk biographer Walter Isaacson says Elon is on a mission to create AGI. Plus: potential storm clouds on the robotaxi horizon.
in the evolution of the self-driving car industry), we thought it would be a good opportunity to talk to Michael about the challenges posed by automated road travel. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.There’s been a lot going on lately...I think San Francisco has really woken up to the fact that there’s a problem here.
Have you been monitoring how the self-driving car industry has been attempting to shape the regulatory environment around their vehiclesSomething that the auto industry has tried to do around the country is control policy at the state level. What that does is remove the ability of the fire chief or police chief in San Francisco to say, ‘Hey, these cars need to be off my roads today. There are safety issues.’ That’s at the heart of [what was expressed at] the DMV andin SF...
There’s been a lot of talk about the potential for self-driving vehicles to reduce road mortality rates. Do you think that, hypothetically, there are some public health benefits here?Hypothetically, there are. However, the vehicles will need to be tested at speeds higher than 30 miles per hour if they want to be deployed more widely . We see so much death and destruction at higher speeds—and that’s where a lot of the real human judgment and errors are made.
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